Hidden inside boastful sit boastful and boatfuls, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boastful and boatfuls tie for the highest Scrabble score from boastful at 13 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in boastful: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boastful itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boastful and boatfuls, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling boastful produces exactly one seven-letter word: boatful. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling boastful turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faults and floats. For points, the strongest play is sobful — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boastful. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about, autos and blast. For points, the strongest plays are flabs and flubs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in boastful produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, auto and bats. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including fabs, flab and flub.
Unscrambling boastful turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bat, bus and but. For points, the strongest plays are fab, fob, and fub — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boastful. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and of. For points, the strongest plays are fa and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in boastful plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in boastful and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
boastful is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for boastful. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
boastful is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boastful unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boastful and boatfuls, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boastful earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in boastful produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 11 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.